(525 quotes found)
“There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.”
Oscar Wilde
“A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it”
“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”
Charlie Chaplin
“Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind”
Henry David Thoreau
“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty”
Socrates
“We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.”
Mark Twain
“Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.”
Coco Chanel
“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.”
Albert Einstein
